Hemp icecream, hemp crumble, hemp gasoline, hemp plutonium to burn in reactors that only produces heat and light instead of radiation, hemp semiconductors enabling the CPU in your phone to tun at 11000Ghz and instead of using power generate it, hemp batteries which can be charged by smiles and unicorn farts, hemp aeroplanes that suck CO2 out of the atmosphere faster than they generate it, hemp cigarettes that cure lung cancer, hemp smokers that can solve any of humanity's problems using one harmless herb.

It'll start out pretty good, a bunch of people talking about how they don't really care about pot, kind of shooting the shit, making fun of potheads a bit. Then in a few months it'll be a default subreddit and be nothing but screenshots of Facebook posts yelling down people who smoke pot and memes about how Willie Nelson is a terrible person who might not have existed at all.

Which will inevitably lead to comments in unrelated subreddits and threads about how much /r/potatheism sucks and IT NEVER ENDS.

THANK YOU.
Seriously though, just because you do not smoke does not mean you have to be ignorant to the fact that marijuana laws in this country are illogical and unjust. If marijuana is illegal based off of the danger of the drug then shouldn't alcohol and tobacco be considering they can kill you?

You can't even overdose from weed if you try, drink a handle of vodka then get back to me...... oh wait....

Honestly, I dont care what you do in your house and with your friends. Smoke a bowl or whatever. It's the "LOL 420 SOOOO KEWL ROFLMFAO" people that drive me nuts. They seem to think they're so cool because they smoke.... Like they think they're better than me or something because they smoke weed. Its stupid and if I never heard another pothead tell me their stoned ever again I'd be very happy.

Here are reasons I don't want it legalized.

More people who won't STFU.

People can't even drive responsibly, I don't expect them to smoke responsibly.

I don't want to smell people who just went on a weed break. Guess what, it doesn't smell good to everyone.

This reminds me of most of my friends and alcohol over the past year. Everyone has been turning 21 and started really drinking. I turned 21 before everyone but one person did and I still haven't had a drink to this day. Personally, it's not my kind of thing. I'm fine with other people drinking and don't down them for it. Instead, they either never really invite me to go out with them or act like I'm some sort of loser for not drinking and fitting in with the college social "norm".

Yeah it sucks man. I've finally gotten to the point where I've just accepted it and am ready to move on with my life. Last week I got back into gamedev after a social-less semester of college. Maybe I'll start meeting gamedev people who have the same outlook on things as us.

I have RA myself. Actually, marijuana would only help with relieving pain, if other painkillers like vicodin don't work so well with a certain patient. It would really only cover up symptoms, and not treat the disease. It wouldn't be a replacement for other drugs used to actually decrease the damage being done on joints (called DMARDS or TNF inhibitors). It's totally fine that you don't know much about RA, the treatments and disease itself are so complex! BUT I do agree that marijuana should be legalized to help other people with different diseases like cancer and such.

I'm not sure, but vicodin probably does. Yes. My doctor specifically told me that he didn't want to put me on painkillers like vicodin because I am very young (teens) and doesn't want me to become addicted to it. I also don't take painkillers because I've been lucky that the 7 other drugs I am on control my disease and the symptoms pretty well enough.

However, the drugs I and others with autoimmune disease commonly use are more risky than vicodin by itself in negative side effects. I'm basically on long term, low dose chemo so I get ill like an elderly person, and have nausea and fatigue much of the time from steroidal prednisone. I'm also lucky considering the fact that I have FEW side effects compared to most other people with RA on similar treatment.

It does help with inflammation. THC is a vasodilator, meaning it makes your blood vessels become larger, so to speak. While vasodilation typically occurs in an area of inflammation, vasodilation across more the body could reduce the amount of blood "collecting" in your joint (or where ever one has inflammation).

EDIT: I humbly admit that my speculation on the actual physiological effects of THC that reduce inflammation is an educated guess. There are studies that support THC as an anti-inflammatory agent. That part is scientifically supported at this point.

From my experience if you're just being critical about misinformation or the likes of it you'll be fine. For that most part that is. There are times when /r/trees can be as downvote happy as the rest of reddit.

It's because they don't know any better. They have a brother, mom, ex best friend, ex girlfriend, or some other somewhat close relative that was a piece of shit, they smoked weed, the person amounted to nothing in life, so the non-smoker attributes it to the weed smoking.

No, sorry, weed doesn't make you lazy or a piece of shit, if you're a lazy person, it'll make you lazy, but if you're a hard working and good person then it will do nothing but enhance your life. None should be able to tell you how to live your life or what you can do with your body. Nobody.

Weed has the same negative effects as excessive alcohol composition and smoking, both of which I think should be illegal.

Perhaps weed smoking doesn't make you a lazy pothead, but it is scientifically proven to cause brain damage with longterm use much in the same way as excessive alcohol consumption. It also has similar effects on your lungs as tobacco.

Essentially I think people shouldn't have the right to make a foolish decision which will inevitably cause health conditions which my tax money has to pay for later, while also making them a less effective member of society due to brain damage.

Don't worry; people on /r/trees over-hype weed. They turn it into a lifestyle, when in reality it's just something you take that makes you feel differently. Like beer. And if someone said "Drink beer erry day, 520 smashing beer bongs all night long," you'd think they were a fucking idiot.

It's not that they over-hype weed. In fact, I think r/trees hypes weed about as much as they should considering that's what the fucking subreddit is about. People on r/trees don't smoke all day erry day. r/trees is a community of people that do smoke, no matter the frequency, and sharing something that everyone there values.

"Hey brah, I just smashed a couple of fortys dawg not a big deal though bro because last week I drank 3 shots of tequilla and washed them down with a beer shit was crazy. I can't believe you don't drink bro you're missing out on all the fun."

I hate that shit. Anytime I'd go to a party and not drink people would talk so much shit to me, I really didnt understand it at all. Why do you care if I'm not drinking your beer? Really turned me away from drinking even more.

But don't you realize that no college student defends beer because there aren't as many opponents as weed? If weed was legal and as prevalent as beer or video games, there wouldn't be as many defensive stoners. Thats the problem with hating on people who smoke.

This is exactly right. Because weed is illegal people use the anonymity of the internet for their culture. You can't look at r/trees and say these people are turning it into a lifestyle because r/trees is dedicated to weed, of course its going to appear as a lifestyle just as a wine/cigar/anything connoisseur forum is going to appear as if it's a lifestyle.

Exactly, well said. Someone concerned with how a person is handling themselves could very well be an insecurity in themselves. If your mind is fully focused you will see the real issue is the action itself.

I don't have any affinity or lack of care for marijuana or Pokemon of most of the other stuff that seems to fuel this place. But holy socks, I can't even stand to look at cats after spending a few months here.

It seems to me you have quite the misconception about weed and some of the people that smoke it. I don't think most people on /r/trees are trying to turn smoking weed into a lifestyle, I don't even know where you would pull that out of a bunch of retarded posts that baked people can laugh at. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the only people that base their lifestyle around weed are people that have dedicated their life to the medical properties of cannabis and trying to change the current situation about its legality. Don't bother bringing the 420 smoke weed erryday gangster types into this equation either, they don't properly represent the kind of community /r/trees is. I'm going to take another shot in the dark here and say it would be exceptionally difficult to find a member of /r/trees that would downvote somebody strictly because they choose not to smoke weed.

Except that you don't see posts on /r/trees trying to advocate marijuana use or talking about medical benefits. Most of it is "THOUGHTS I HAD AT AN [8]".

Honestly, every person I've met who has a "lifestyle" involving weed is just a lazy pothead. I know I'm going along with the stereotypes, but it's honestly just the truth. And /trees is just pothead humor, there's really no point in overglamorizing it.

Also, I used to smoke and I have nothing against weed. It's just exaggerated in my eyes.

It's mainly exaggerated with the teen/college crowd. People, and this is true, think its cool to use marijuana (no, I'm not glamorizing D.A.R.E). I used it, I stopped. A lot of people use it to fit in.

That's because they do it all the time, and being from /r/trees I can say it makes you feel good about smoking because everybody always talks about it, it's a culture thing though yeah it is a bit over-hyped.

it's cool if you don't care about marijuana. as an ent myself, all I want others to understand is how misrepresented marijuana is in main stream media. i think the biggest problem about marijuana is that people make too much of a big deal about it - both smokers and non.

Seriously? I smoke, but people who don't smoke are never excluded in my groups of friends. I guess it sucks if you don't like being around high people, but I've never seen ENTs excluding people because they don't partake.

Yeah, I hear you. I and most of my close friends smoke pot, but plenty don't. Weed isn't the focal point of our social interactions, so it's a non issue. But sorry, smallsize, for feeling excluded by your friends :(

I think the biggest mistake a person can make is to assume that they have to be interested in using cannabis in order to be interested in the legalization of cannabis. There are terrible, terrible things happening domestically (lives being ruined for something less harmful than drinking wine at a wedding, a gross imbalance of incarcerations for those who happen to have darker skin, people suffering when there are legitimate medical applications, etc.) and internationally (the brutal murders over the drug trade far exceed those that lifted the prohibition of alcohol and countless lives have been ruined). Even if you just want to be selfish and think about yourself, the amount of tax money that could be saved by ending a failed war on drugs and the amount of money to be made from taxing legalized sales is astounding.

There is no reason for any individual of any age to not back the legalization of cannabis. Medically, socially, financially and morally, it is the right thing to do.

My experience with pot smokers, 100% of the ones I know, is extremely similar to my experience with people who drink a liter of hard liquor a day. Not saying every person who smokes pot is completely useless, just all several dozen I've gotten to know in the last 15 years. That said, I say make it legal. People will smoke it anyway, might as well make a profit.

If there's weed in the movie it's safe to say the writers were getting high while writing it and are just incorporating their own experiences. It's good to normalize smoking pot because it's illegality is toxic to our nation.

What I dont get is all the talking about weed... if Im not at work I smoke like a chimney. Talking about weed is the last thing I want to do, especially when Im smoking it... "weed culture" is so weird to me.

I feel the same brother! I hate clicking posts on the front page that are from /r/trees just to see a bong, frankly, I couldn't careless about what kind of bongs they got, and most of their unfunny rage comics about meeting a fellow ent or how they got away with smoking. However, I do appreciate when they upvote some diagrams of drug facts.